• ARC’s work center sidelined by Sandy

    Flood damage at Work Opportunity Center displaces clients BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer Some 150 clients have been shifted to facilities in Tinton Falls and Neptune after flooding during the superstorm caused extensive damage to the Arc of Monmouth’s Work Opportunity Center in Long Branch, which has been gutted. LONG BRANCH — The nearly 150…

  • Rabies vaccination clinic in Oceanport

    The Monmouth County Board of Health is sponsoring a free rabies vaccination clinic on Saturday, Jan. 12 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Port Au Peck Chemical Hose Co., 4333 Myrtle Ave., Oceanport. The clinic is open to all Monmouth County residents.

  • FEMA expands housing available to Sandy victims

    More units readied at Fort Monmouth and mobile home parks BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer OCEANPORT — Additional temporary housing units are being readied for residents who were displaced by the superstorm and are still residing in hotels and motels. The temporary housing units at Fort Monmouth are expected to be ready for occupancy by…

  • Red Bank Community Garden plots available

    RED BANK — The Community Garden on Marion Street will soon be ready to lease plots for the 2013 growing season. Applications for Red Bank residents to lease plots in the new Red Bank Community Garden will be available Jan. 15 on the borough website www.redbanknj.org, under the Parks and Recreation Department forms link. Forms…

  • Local bridges get safety upgrades

    County to hold public meeting Jan. 23 on plans to replace Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer A view of the Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge in Rumson on Jan. 4 ERIC SUCAR RUMSON — The Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge (S-32) is scheduled to undergo $700,000 in temporary repairs and safety upgrades at the end of…

  • Storm and school shootings put focus on mental health

    Recent events such as superstorm Sandy and the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., have brought the subject of mental health care to the forefront. Unfortunately, the focus on mental health care and mental wellness usually only occurs after highly visible tragic events. The fact is that while behavioral health treatment needs…

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    Snow geese, seen here at Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Oceanville, Atlantic County, are rarely seen traveling alone and can form flocks of several hundred thousand. This makes finding suitable accommodations a little tricky, but somehow they manage. IMAGE BY BILL PATRICK/www.maiseyimages.com

  • This is what happens when the GOP is in total control

    CODA GREG BEAN So there was the state of my nativity, Wyoming, in the news again last night for yet another wacky law they’re considering — this time a bill sponsored by eight members of the state House of Representatives and two state senators declaring that any federal law that attempts to ban semi-automatic firearms,…

  • VNA Holiday Dinner benefits hospice program

    The sixth annual Visiting Nurse Association Health Group Holiday Dinner held Dec. 1 raised nearly $65,000 to benefit the VNA Health Group Hospice Program. Honored at the event — held at the Spring Lake Golf Club and attended by more than 200 guests — were Frank and Diane Vigilante of Fair Haven. “Frank and Diane…

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